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Opius (Opiothorax) attributus Fischer 1962

  • 1. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, I. R. Iran. & rahele. dolati @ modares. ac. ir; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0433 - 8389
  • 2. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, I. R. Iran.
  • 3. Bleichestrasse 15, CH- 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
  • 4. Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, I. R. Iran. s. farahani @ rifr-ac. ir; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6897 - 0631
  • 5. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran.

Description

Opius (Opiothorax) attributus Fischer, 1962

Material collected: Iran, Mazandaran province: Joorband (36°26′17″N, 52°07′16″E, 272 m a.s.l.), 10.X.2011, 1♀, leg.: M. Khayrandish.

Diagnosis (Female): Body length 1.8 mm (Fig. 8A); antenna 1.5× as long as body, with 32 antennomeres; clypeus narrow falcate, oral cavity developed (Fig. 8B); mandibles abruptly widened basally (Fig. 8B); mesonotum with usual structure, without medio-posterior mesoscutal depression (Fig. 8C); mesosoma 1.4× its maximum height (Fig. 8D); precoxal sulcus smooth (Fig. 8D); propodeum with distinct longitudinal ridge (Fig. 8E); pterostigma cuneate, 2nd submarginal cell and 3RSa vein longer, 3RSa vein less than 2.0× as long as 2RS vein (Fig. 8F); length of hind femur 4.0-5.0× its maximum width (Fig. 8G); first metasomal tergite 1.5× as long as its width at apex (Fig. 8H); first and second metasomal tergites yellow, remaining metasomal tergites dark brown, metasomal tergites smooth except first tergite rugose (Fig. 8H); ovispositor sheaths short and not extended beyond apex of metasoma.

Distribution in Iran: Mazandaran province (current study).

General distribution: Western Palaearctic (Yu et al. 2016) and Iran (new record).

Notes

Published as part of Dolati, Sana, Talebi, Ali Asghar, Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, Farahani, Samira & Khayrandish, Mohammad, 2021, New data on the subfamily Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, pp. 331-352 in Zootaxa 4903 (3) on page 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4427822

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References

  • Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, C. & Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad 2016, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Nepean, Ontario. [database on flash-drive]